Bearing for handle-caps.



PATENTED SEPT. 26, 1905.

L. B. PRAHAR. BEARING FOR HANDLE GAPS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1905.

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BEARING FOR HANDLE-CAPS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Application filed March 15, 1905. Serial No. 260,231.

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Be it known that I, LoUIs B. PRAHAR, aciti- Zen of. the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Bearing for Handle-Caps, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of my invention is to provide a construction of bearing for handle-caps for bags and like articles, which construction is an improvement upon that shown in an application for a similar device filed by me December 30, 1904, Serial No. 238,938, and allowed February 18, 1905, the improvement being such as to simplify the bearing, providing a constructionin one piece including a base, one or more posts, and attaching-lugs which extend down from the base.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth,and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a portion of a bag, aside elevation of a portion of the handle and handle-cap, and a side elevation of the improved bearing applied to the cap and bag-frame. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the improved bearing drawn upon an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal and vertical section through the bear ing, also drawn upon an enlarged scale; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a slightlymodified form of the device.

A representsa portion of the body of a bag: B, the frame; C, the handle, and O the handlecap.

The improved bearing is struck up or is otherwise formed from one piece of metal and comprises abase 10 and, preferably, two posts 11 and 12, extending upward from the ends of the base, each post being provided with an opening 13 to receive the handle-cap C. The posts 11 and 12 may be of the same height; but ordinarily one post 11 is higher and of greater dimensions than the outer post 12, and the openings therein are proportional, as is illustrated in the drawings, since usually the inner end of a handle-cap C is of greater diameter than its outer end. Slots 14 are produced in the base 10, one at each side of the center, extending quite close to the posts 11 and 12, the material liberated by the production of the slots beingbent downward to form attaching-lugs 15, which while not immediately below the posts 11 and 12 are near thereto, as illustrated. Ifv desired, the slots let may be carried sufficiently outward to bring the lugs 15 in substantially vertical alinement with the posts, and it will be further understood that the bearings may consist of a base, as shown, having the two lugs and a single post without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In application the handle-cap 0' having been fitted to a bearing, the handle C is secured in the cap in the usual'or in any approved manner; then the lugs 15 are passed through suitable apertures in a member of the frame B and are bentor clamped beneath said member, as is shown at 16 in Fig 1.

It is evident that a perfect bearing may be conveniently made in the manner described and from a single piece of material without lacerating, slotting, or otherwise marring the shank-sections of the posts. By carrying the lugs 15 downward a slight distance from the outer faces of the posts 11 and 12 shoulders 17 are formed at the outer ends of the base, which engaging with the frame when a hearing is placed in position produces a perfect finish at its ends.

In Fig. 4: I have illustrated a slightly-modified form of the device, in which one post 18 is integral with the base 19, and the second and smaller post 20 is separate from, but secured to the base, each post being provided with the conventional opening 21 to'receive the handle-cap. In this form of the device a slot 22 is made in the base 19 adjacent to the larger post 18, and the material thus liberated is bent downward to form a fastening-lug 23, the other fastening-lug 24. being produced by reducing the width of the base at the end beyond the smaller post 20 and bending the reduced portion downward from the base.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A bearing for the caps of bag-handles, comprising a base, upwardly-extending posts having openings therein and bent upward from the base, and lugs constituting integral portions of the base and bent downwardly therefrom.

2. A bearing for the caps of bag-handles, constructed from one piece of material and comprising a base, a post extending upward from the base, having an opening therein to receive a handle-cap, and a fastening-lug formed from the base, extending dmvnward from the base at a terminal of the slot produced in the base by the formation of the lug.

3. As an improved article of manufacture, a bearing for the caps of bag-handles, constructed of a single piece of material, consisting of a base, a post extending upward from each end of the base and provided with an opening to receive a handle-cap, and a fastening-lug formed from the base and extending downward from each end portion thereof and located at the outer end portions of the slots lug.

4:. As an improved article of manufacture a bearing for the caps of bag-handles, constructed of a single piece of material having the'ends bent upward to form posts and. provided with openings to receive the handle- 20 LOUIS B. PEA HAR.

Witnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, JNo. M. BITTER. 

